Another Week Flown By

After the shopping spree on Saturday where everyone but me had bought something, I was feeling rather left out. I had seen a pamphlet from NKD and decided to head off to their shop in Romrod. I found myself 2 very nice pairs of 3/4 pants which I can wear with my boots. A real bargain they turned out to be, because on paying for them, the cashier informed me that these items had in fact been marked down. Felt very chuffed with my bargain shop.
On Tuesday, the boys bus did not arrive on time and all three boys arrive at the door (at about 9.00 o'clock) stating that when the bus doesn't come, they don't actually have to go to school. I rushed upstairs and put the rest of my face on and on my way out the house, grabbed the holiday brochures that I had gone through.
Dropped the boys at school and went off to the travel agent. Spent hours there trying to find the holiday that we are after. I couldn't believe that so many hotels do not cater for families with more than 2 children. Meaning that we would have to book 2 rooms and of course this doubling the price of our holiday!!!
Eventually, we found a couple of hotels with family rooms etc. which catered for our size family.
Later that afternoon, just as I was getting Lara into the car, to go to dancing class, Ryan arrived. He had brought over their pot plants and magazines.
On Thursday 8th February we had snow. Gerard and I decided on a holiday in Tunisia and after speaking to Tim on Wednesday night about their time there, we both felt that a week would be long enough. So on thursday morning I went off to the travel agent to book our holiday. I was in high spirits and decided to do a bit of shopping in the town centre. Walked through lots of shops and eventually decided that I would drive to Bell and show Gerard our hotel that we would be staying in. At that stage the snow was falling quite steadily and by the time I left Bell, my car was covered in snow. Did a bit of grocery shopping and went home. Gerard came home a bit later for lunch and he had brough Lara and Zina home. The two girls had great fun playing together and at 3.00pm I took them off to Light Athletics. Lara really seems to enjoy herself there. By this stage the thick snow was now starting to melt and when we left the hall an hour later, it was just about all gone!!
That evening we had a teacher, parents evening for both Robert and Steven. Robert's one being the most important meeting, as this was were we would discuss his future choice of schooling. Because he is in the 4th Class, he now has to decide as to which stream of schooling he wants to be in. Unfortunately, his German mark of 4 has not allowed him to go to Gymnasium which is the Highest Stream school. AFter discussions with his teacher (who told us he was plain lazy and could do a lot better) we decided that the Real schule would be the school he would attend from September. We just felt that if he went to Gymnasium, he would constantly be at the bottom of the class. Hopefully, with the choice of Real, he will be in the top part of the class and give him more self confidence. He can also, once finishing his years at Real, do an extra year (with the extra language which they do in Gymnasium) and he will have an entry level to University.
On Saturday morning, we had a lazy start and then went to do shopping in town. Alex came along with us, as we were dropping the two of them at Halligalli for another school friends (Alexander Hess) birthday party.
After dropping them, we headed off to Media Max in Lauterbach. Spent a good couple of hours their comparing brands of flatscreen TV's. Oh there are such lovely tv's, stands which via remote control, lift the screen to whichever height you want it at.
But all these things come at quite a cost!!!!
We picked Robert up from Halligalli and went straight to Ryan's farewell at the Italian restaurant. Lutger had joined us South African's and I got to meet Justin (the new S.A. guy) for the first time. We had a lovely dinner and a good time with everyone.

We were woken up on Sunday morning at 8.00 o'clock by Steven's trainer. He had left a message for us the day before but we hadn't got it. Steven was due to play, so realising that we were still in bed, he offered to come and fetch Steven. Steven was thrilled to hear that he was playing and dressed, ate and got his gear together in 10 minutes. Steven's team played well (came 2nd overall) and Steven scored 4 of their 7 goals. Quite the main soccer player!!!!
We then realised that Kinderfasching was on in Liederbach, so got the kids all dressed up for their bash. They really enjoy the excitedment of it all and this year there weren't as many children as previous years. We spent 3 hours there and then decided that we had all had enough.